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The Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER) recently received a $150,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that will help fund activities aimed at helping Pennsylvania colleges and universities use their network infrastructure to support scientific applications and research.

Vishal Monga, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award totaling $500,000, for his research in signal and image processing.

Gordon Warn, associate professor of civil engineering, along with two other Penn State faculty members, recently received a National Science Foundation award to fund their research on resilient and sustainable building design.

An interdisciplinary team lead by Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, professor of computer science and engineering, is developing computerized vision systems that can match -- and even surpass -- the capabilities of human vision.

Two Penn State engineering faculty members were recently awarded National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards. The faculty members are Gordon Warn, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

Publication of the newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant has shed new light on a major event in the history of life on Earth -- the origin of all major food crops and all other flowering plants. The research addresses the question of why flowers suddenly proliferated on Earth millions of years ago.